gconftool failure under GNOME 2

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

When I build gconf, the call to gconftool --shutdown fails. The reason is 
that the object ID constructed in gconf_postinit has the string 
"ConfigListener" as its data, but the ID assignment scheme for the POA is 
set to PortableServer_SYSTEM_ID, which only accepts IDs with a length that'
s an unsigned long plus an obj_ran_len (see poa.c line 1479).

I'd like to fix this, but I don't know how.

Any ideas?

    -- Darin